Candidate Support Provider Self-Paced Modules
Think Systematically, Support Exceptionally
You’ve achieved National Board Certification, now candidates are asking for your help.
You want to give back. You remember the support that carried you through your own journey. But when candidates reach out, you’re thinking: “Where do I even start? What if I give the wrong advice?”
As a Candidate Support Provider, completing these self-paced modules is an investment in your own professional growth. The learning is designed to help you take ownership of your development, reflect on your practice, and make informed decisions about how to best support National Board candidates.
Unlike a live training, where learning is guided by a facilitator and shaped by group discussion, this self-guided experience places you in the driver’s seat. You will determine the pace, manage your work autonomously without facilitator feedback, revisit resources as needed, and choose where to spend more time based on your own learning goals and areas for growth. This format requires personal accountability and intentional reflection as you engage with the content.
Moving through the 4 modules, you will interact with resources, scenarios, ATLAS materials and reflective activities designed to deepen your understanding of National Board Certification and ethical candidate support. The goal is not simply to complete the training, but to strengthen your knowledge, skills, and confidence so that you can provide meaningful, professional, and ethical support preserving candidate ownership of the certification process.
You don't need to figure it out alone.
Our 4 self-paced learning modules give you everything you need to confidently guide candidates from their first step to success. We’ve distilled years of effective support strategies into clear, actionable steps. Now you can focus on what matters: helping educators achieve their goals
These modules are for you if:
- You want to support candidates but feel uncertain about where to begin
- You’re already helping teachers and want to strengthen your impact
- You’re leading a cohort and need structured, proven frameworks
- You want to give back with confidence, not guesswork
Stop second-guessing. Start supporting with clarity. Whether you’re mentoring one candidate or leading a large cohort, meeting in-person or virtually, these modules transform your good intentions into powerful, effective support. The term CSP is used interchangeably with PLF, Facilitator and any title of an NBCT who supports candidates. There are no assignments to turn in. Download your module copy and keep it in the folder or platform that works best for you so you can easily access it. At the end of the module, we’ll ask you to share your feedback to help us continue improving the learning experience.
Ready to become the Candidate Support Provider you want to be?
INTRODUCTORY PRICING: Individual modules are $40 each. Sign up each module individually or all 4 modules for $100. Module descriptions below. Own the Process. Choose Your Path.
Self-Paced Modules
Building Excellence in Candidate Support
Excellence begins by building the knowledge, skills, and professional judgement needed to provide meaningful, ethical, candidate support. Each focus area will provide you with familiar and perhaps new resources to extend your practice as a CSP. Reflective questions will be shared along with typical scenarios to utilize and apply ideas from these resources while giving you time to reflect on how you would approach situations.
- Leading From Understanding
- Know the Map, Guide the Journey
- Supporting Success, Preserving Ownership
- Advancing Your CSP Practice
Coaching Skills for Adult Learners
Effective coaching begins with understanding: understanding how adults learn, what motivates them, and how to create the conditions in which they can do their best thinking. This module invites you to examine your role as a supporter and deepen the skills that make that role transformative. Whether you are new to coaching or looking to strengthen your practice, this module offers practical frameworks and strategies you can apply immediately with the candidates you serve.
- Principles of adult learning and how this “looks” in CSP practice
- Coaching vs. mentoring vs. consulting
- Questioning techniques that promote analysis and reflection
- Trust and safe learning spaces
- Supporting candidates who feel overwhelmed, unfocused, discouraged
Feedback to Advance Candidate Thinking
Thoughtful feedback inspires deeper reflection, strengthens candidate decision-making, and helps candidates make meaningful connections. This module links NB Ethical Candidate Support Policy and AI Instructions to feedback, provides feedback scenario analysis and uses ATLAS materials to build feedback expertise.
- National Board Ethical Feedback
- CSP Feedback Scenarios
- Feedback That Advances Thinking
- Build Your Feedback Proficiency
Supporting Candidates Through the Certification Journey
The path to National Board Certification is a marathon, not a sprint. Candidates need more than content guidance along the way. This module prepares you to support candidates holistically, from the earliest stages of planning through submission and beyond. Every candidate’s journey looks different. This module equips you with the tools and perspective to meet each one where they are and guide them toward success.
- Supporting session planning, goal setting, pacing, and time management
- Addressing candidate stress, self-doubt, and perfectionism
- Differentiating support for first-time, retake, and maintenance candidates
- Preparing candidates for submission and reflection post-submission
Modules 1-4 Why Purchase the Complete Self-Paced Module Set?
Whether you are stepping into a Candidate Support Provider role for the first time or looking to sharpen a practice you have built over years, these four modules work together to give you a complete professional foundation. Together they move you from understanding the principles of adult learning and ethical support, through the practical skills of coaching and feedback, to the full arc of a candidate’s certification journey, so that every candidate you serve receives knowledgeable, thoughtful, and consistent guidance.
- A cohesive framework, not isolated topics. Each module builds on the last, connecting mindset, coaching skills, feedback expertise, and journey-wide candidate support into one integrated approach to CSP practice.
- Immediately applicable tools and strategies. From questioning techniques and feedback scenario analysis to planning support and stress management, every module delivers practical resources you can use with your candidates right away.
- Designed for CSPs at every level. Whether you are new to supporting National Board candidates or an experienced CSP seeking to advance your practice, the bundle meets you where you are and grows with you.